2014 Midsummer Fire Festival Guide (June 21 - July 5)

한여름 불꽃축제 is here! Embrace the spirit of summer by honoring your faction's flames and desecrating the enemy's! Throughout the world, there are bonfires surrounded by questgivers and NPCs that sell summery items in exchange for 불타는 꽃. There are commoner NPCs of all races that can be found lingering around the major cities that will give you a short quest to turn in at one of the main bonfire camps to get you started.

Midsummer Fire Festival begins on June 21 at 11:00 AM (PST) and runs until July 5 at 11:00 AM (PST).

Festival Bonfires

Bonfires have been spread across all of Azeroth, inviting players to honor their own faction's and desecrate those of their enemies! To honor one of your faction's bonfires, simply speak to the nearby Flame Keeper and Flame Warden and complete the quest. To desecrate an opposing faction bonfire, the quest will instead be available at the bonfire itself, where you can extinguish it for your reward.

Not only does visiting these fires grant a good bit of money for max level characters, it is also extremely good experience for pre-90 characters making this holiday very helpful for leveling alts.

You are also challenged to steal the four capital city flames of the opposing faction!

Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Outland, Northrend, Pandaria

Honor the Flame! - Awards 불타는 꽃 x5, and at level 90Start & End:Flame Keeper located near each bonfire of your faction.This quest can only be completed once per location at festival fires belonging to your faction.

Enemy Capital Cities

Stealing X's Flame - Awards 불타는 꽃 x25, plus choice of consumableStart: Each opposing faction bonfire located in an enemy capital city.End:한여름 축제 이야기꾼 or 한여름 축제 현자This quest can only be completed once per enemy capital city (4 total).

Complete List

Keep in mind that every Cataclysm zone has their own bonfires. We have included them in our coordinates by continent.

Tip: Clicking on the coordinates in the tables below will open a map of the bonfire's location in a lightbox! To view your character and your mouse cursor's coordinates on the in-game world map you can use our very own addon, the Wowhead Looter (type /wl loc map), and contribute data in the process!

Neutral Bonfires

In 2011, neutral Earthen Ring bonfires were added to Cataclysm zones. These bonfires can only be honored, and will award 15 불타는 꽃 upon doing so. Zones which feature an Earthen Ring Bonfire do not feature separate Alliance / Horde bonfires.

Legend

Neutral Bonfires

In 2011, neutral Earthen Ring bonfires were added to Cataclysm zones. These bonfires can only be honored, and will award 15 불타는 꽃 upon doing so. Zones which feature an Earthen Ring Bonfire do not feature separate Alliance / Horde bonfires.

In addition to awarding easy gold and 불타는 꽃, there are a number of player buffs that are available from the various festival fire locations.

Ribbon Pole

At each bonfire you will find a ribbon pole which creates a colorful streamer to your hand and causes your character to twirl very quickly. While doing this, you will gain the 리본의 춤 buff which increases experience gain by 10% for 3 minutes, stacking 3 more minutes on for every 3 seconds you remain twirling at the ribbon pole. The buff stacks up to a one hour duration and can stack with rested experience, so get it while it's hot! If a player throws a 불타는 꽃 into a festival fire, all surrounding players will gain the 불꽃축제의 열정 buff, granting +3% physical/spell critical strike and reflecting Fire damage to attackers for 1 hour, and scales with your player level.

As if that wasn't enough, if you happen to be at a festival flame that has been extinguished and no longer burns, tossing a 불타는 꽃 into it will grant a zone-wide buff 화톳불의 축복 which gives your faction's players a 30% chance to inflict 10 Fire damage on any melee, ranged, or spell attack, increasing by 10 Fire damage per level.

Boss: Lord Ahune

Starting with 2010's edition of the festival, Blizzard has changed the way seasonal bosses are accessed. In previous years, a quest would lead you to a dungeon where you would find that event's boss and were able to summon him a limited number of times via quests to farm items. However, nowadays the seasonal boss encounter can be accessed through the Dungeon Finder tool, and related quests now being found inside of the dungeon. Players must be at least level 89 to queue for Ahune.

Any special items that dropped off a seasonal boss in addition to his normal drop table (such as mounts from 연금술사 훔멜 or 저주받은 기사) will now only have a chance to drop from a loot bag which is awarded upon killing the boss for the first time per day. Players can only receive a single loot bag per day, but will be able to re-queue for the boss in order to farm the more common drops. This means no more hours upon hours of farming for the most rare of items--every player in the party will have a chance to get a rare item out of the loot bag once per day!

아훈 can be queued by selecting "The Frost Lord Ahune" in the Dungeon Finder tool, or by speaking to the 대지 고리회 장로 located in any main Midsummer camp. Upon defeating Ahune for the first time per day, you will receive gold and a 한기서린 물품 주머니 which contains a few 불타는 꽃 (about 5-15) and has a chance of containing a rare item.

Upon entering 강제 노역소, rather than having to do a quest to summon Ahune, you must first defeat the Naga who defend the Ice Stone. Use the Ice Stone to summon the boss, defeat the boss, and collect the loot from the chest! Players who have never before defeated Ahune can loot 아훈의 파편 from the chest, which starts a quest that turns in at the nice tauren lady nearby and awards 20 불타는 꽃 and your choice of 여름 하늘 휘장 or 여름 불꽃 휘장! This quest was once again not reset, so if you've already done it in the past you are out of luck.

Normal Drops

Festival Camps

The main festival camps can be found at the following locations:

Alliance: Darnassus, Ironforge, Stormwind City and The Exodar

Horde: Orgrimmar, Silvermoon City, Thunder Bluff and Undercity

Quests

여름 이야기꾼 or 한여름 불꽃축제의 의미Start:"Commoner" NPCs in major cities.End:한여름 축제 이야기꾼 or 한여름 축제 현자These quests are simply "breadcrumb" quests given by flavor NPCs in major cities to alert you to the Festival's start and to lead you to the Festival Fire camps. Awards a single 불타는 꽃, and is turned in at the 한여름 축제 이야기꾼 or 한여름 축제 현자, who are found in their appropriate faction major cities (or 샤트라스). This quest is not required, and the NPC will give the next quest regardless of its completion.

축제 불덩이에게 향료를 or 한여름 불덩이에게 향료를Start:한여름 축제 이야기꾼 or 한여름 축제 현자End:Summer ScorchlingA quick and easy quest, simply talk to the NPC located near a Festival Fire (locations here) in any major city to accept the quest and receive the 한여름 향료, then walk outside the city and turn it in at a 이글거리는 불덩이 located near a festival fire. You can complete this quest at basically any of your faction's fires, it doesn't matter which one. The quest is ridiculously easy and awards only single 불타는 꽃, but the short event following completion is quite a treat.

Torch Throwing

The 불꽃마술의 대가 or 불꽃 마술의 대가 located near the bonfire offers a two-part quest chain which unlocks two daily quests that can be completed for gold as well as 불타는 꽃.

Quests

횃불을 던져라! or 횃불을 던져라!Start & End:불꽃 마술의 대가 or 불꽃마술의 대가You must aim and throw 연습용 횃불 at a series of braziers found nearby the questgiver. A brazier is only considered an active target when it has an arrow above it that looks like a ; non-marked braziers will not count towards the quest objective. When you use the torch you will be given a small targeting circle that you must place over an active brazier and click to toss. You are given x seconds to hit 8 targets, and if you are successful you are awarded with 불타는 꽃 x5 and gold (and experience, if you are lower than 80).

횃불을 잡아라! or 횃불을 잡아라!Start & End:불꽃 마술의 대가 or 불꽃마술의 대가You must light the 불붙지 않은 횃불 at the bonfire, which will then toss a flaming torch into the air. You have to follow the shadow of the torch, and then wait where it will land to "catch" it. If you miss, but are near where it lands you will suffer fire damage which can add up pretty quick if you're not yet used to the quest. When you catch the torch, there will be a very short delay before you will automatically toss it back up into the air, only this time it will travel a much shorter distance. You must "catch" the torch four times in a row to complete the quest, and you will be rewarded with 곡예 횃불 x5 and 불타는 꽃 x5.

아훈이 남긴 파편Start:아훈의 파편, which drops from 아훈 on player's first kill.End:루마 스카이마더Upon successfully killing Ahune for the first time, he will drop a quest item that you return to Luma Skymother. This quest cannot be completed more than once (this year) - which means you will have to choose one tabard per character! You will be rewarded with 불타는 꽃 x20 and your choice of either the 여름 하늘 휘장 or the 여름 불꽃 휘장

Detailed Information

At each major city capital camp there is an 대지 고리회 장로 representing the faction neutral Earthen Ring, an organization of shaman similar to the druids' 세나리온 의회. The Elder will offers a short quest chain starting with 이상한 활동, for which you must travel to the Zoram Strand of 잿빛 골짜기 and slay level 20+ 황혼의 불꽃추종자 until the 암호화된 황혼의 서신 drops. Once you receive it, use the 신호 토템 to summon an 대지 고리회 인도자 to complete the quest.

The Guide will then give you the next part of the quest, 단순한 변장 for which you are given an orb that changes you into a Crawler for three minutes. In your new disguise, you must travel northwest of the entrance of 검은심연 나락. You will know you're going the right way if you periodically find blue-flamed torches, and eventually a small encampment on the shore. While disguised, witness the exchange between the naga and the 얼음 소환사 브리아타 until the quest completes. When it is finished, you can move out of range of the mobs and cancel the disguise, and summon the 대지 고리회 인도자 once again. This time, upon relaying the information, the guide will give you the quest 장로에게 소식 전달, requesting that you return to an 대지 고리회 장로 and report your findings.

Once you have returned to an 대지 고리회 장로, the quest chain will complete and either one or two quests will become available, depending on your level. For characters level 22 and above, a repeatable daily quest will open up. The quest is called Striking Back, and depending on your level range you will be given a single objective at a location in Azeroth or Outland.

되받아치기 (Level 22) - This quest has you summon and kill a 서리파도 부관 from an Ice Stone located at the Zoram Strand, 잿빛 골짜기. Awards 불타는 꽃 x10 and .

되받아치기 (Level 32) - This quest has you summon and kill a 우박의 부관 from an Ice Stone at Ethel Rethor, 잊혀진 땅. Awards 불타는 꽃 x10 and .

되받아치기 (Level 51) - This quest has you summon and kill a 극한의 부관 from an Ice Stone in the northwestern part of 이글거리는 협곡. Awards 불타는 꽃 x10 and .

되받아치기 (Level 60) - This quest has you summon and kill a 빙하의 부관 from an Ice Stone at Twilight's Run, 실리더스. Awards 불타는 꽃 x10 and .

되받아치기 (Level 64) - This quest has you summon and kill a 빙하의 기사 from an Ice Stone near the Dark Portal, in 지옥불 반도. Awards 불타는 꽃 x10 and

If you character is level 65 or higher, the 대지 고리회 장로 will offer a second quest, . This quest asks you to travel to the 강제 노역소 in 장가르 습지대 in search of 누마 클라우드시스터, who is located right inside the instance. This quest, and its follow-up, are not actually required to summon Ahune. Instead, they serve as back-story to the event.

When you turn in that quest she will give the quest 여기에 아훈이! and ask that you find 루마 스카이마더, who is located a bit further into the instance. Finally, Luma will give you the quest 아훈 소환, granting you an 대지 고리회 용암 토템 allowing you to (you guessed it) summon 아훈. Use the totem at the Ice Stone located just beyond Luma and defeat Ahune to complete the quest.

If this is your first time killing Ahune, he will drop an item called 아훈의 파편 which starts the quest 아훈이 남긴 파편. Accept the quest and bring the shard to 루마 스카이마더, and she will reward you with 불타는 꽃 x20 and your choice of a unique tabard: the 여름 하늘 휘장 or the 여름 불꽃 휘장. You can only complete this quest once, so you will not be able to receive both tabards on the same character (well, not until next year at least)!

Midsummer Festival Items

There are 한여름 축제 보급원s and 한여름 축제 상인s located near each major city's festival fire who sell a variety of items in exchange for 불타는 꽃.

Many of these items are required for various achievements, and it is worth mentioning that items can no longer be "returned" within 2 hours for a full refund of the cost.

Achievements

불꽃지기 or 불꽃감시자This achievement can be found in the main World Events achievement category and is awarded upon completion of every one of the Midsummer Fire Festival achievements. This achievement awards the player title Flame Keeper or Flame Warden (depending on faction) and is a requirement towards completion of 길고도 낯선 길 which rewards the beautiful 보라색 원시비룡.

정열의 불꽃춤To earn this achievement you have to dance at a ribbon pole located near festival Bonfires for a full minute while wearing the full Midsummer Reveler set. You will need a total of 400 불타는 꽃 to purchase all three pieces - 100 for the 불꽃축제 어깨덧옷, 100 for 여름 예복 and 200 for 여름 덧신. Please note that the 불꽃축제 관 obtained from the Thief's Reward quests is not required for this achievement. Simply right click a ribbon pole to grab a ribbon and start spinning!

얼라이언스 모독하기 or 호드 모독하기This achievement is awarded upon completion of all three of the Extinguishing meta achievements available to each faction.

칼림도어 불꽃 끄기 or 칼림도어 불꽃 끄기For this achievement, you must extinguish all of the opposing faction's flames found on the continent of Kailmdor. A full list of these bonfires can be found above.

대격변 불꽃지기 or 대격변 불꽃감시자For this achievement, you must honor all of your faction's flames found in zones from Cataclysm. A full list of these bonfires can be found above.

대격변 불꽃 끄기 or 대격변 불꽃 끄기For this achievement, you must extinguish all of the opposing faction's flames found in zones from Cataclysm. A full list of these bonfires can be found above.

얼라이언스 모독하기 or 호드 모독하기This achievement is awarded upon completion of all three of the Extinguishing meta achievements available to each faction.

아제로스의 불꽃 or The 아제로스의 불꽃This achievement is awarded upon completion of all three of the Flame Keeper / Flame Warden meta achievements available to each faction.

동부 왕국 불꽃지기 or 동부 왕국 불꽃감시자For this achievement, you must honor all of your faction's flames found on the continent of Eastern Kingdoms. A full list of these bonfires can be found above.

칼림도어 불꽃지기 or 칼림도어 불꽃감시자For this achievement, you must honor all of your faction's flames found on the continent of Kalimdor. A full list of these bonfires can be found above.

아웃랜드 불꽃지기 or 아웃랜드 불꽃감시자For this achievement, you must honor all of your faction's flames found on the continent of Outland. A full list of these bonfires can be found above.

불꽃 축제의 제왕To obtain this achievement you must complete the quest 도적의 보상 (Alliance), which requires you to sneak into the four major cities of your opposing faction to 'steal' their festival flames. Details on stealing the flames can be found above.

서리 군주 처치To obtain this achievement you must defeat 아훈 who can be summoned inside 강제 노역소 of 갈퀴송곳니 저수지, in 장가르 습지대. Players who participated in last year's Midsummer festivities may find that they have already earned this achievement, among others. Details on summoning Lord Ahune can be found above.

불꽃 마술사For this achievement, purchase at least 10 곡예 횃불 from a Midsummer vendor, and juggle them 40 times within 15 seconds while in Dalaran. Hotkey the torches and click the ground below your character to juggle them in place!

노스렌드 불꽃지기 or 노스렌드 불꽃감시자For this achievement, you must honor all of your faction's flames found on the continent of Northrend. A full list of these bonfires can be found above.

노스렌드 불꽃 끄기 or 노스렌드 불꽃 끄기For this achievement, you must extinguish all of the opposing faction's flames found in Northrend. A full list of these bonfires can be found above.

판다리아 불꽃지기 or 판다리아 불꽃감시자For this achievement, you must honor all of your faction's flames found on the continent of Pandaria. A full list of these bonfires can be found above.

판다리아 불꽃 끄기 or 판다리아 불꽃 끄기For this achievement, you must extinguish the opposing faction's flame in Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

댓글

Mellro의 댓글

*Sigh* the least Blizzard can do for in-between-xpac-content is to change up each holiday as they're about to hit.

DBEmerald의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T13:15:20-05:00

Another event with no changes? I'm glad Blizzard gave us holiday events to begin with, but when they're the same for years...at least the robes will look nice on my new RP alt I've been trying out.

echospazz의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T13:16:27-05:00

@Mellro, That or increase the item level of the armor/weapons.

Pathstrider의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T14:18:07-05:00

Did all achieves for this years ago. No need to do anything for this event this year as the gear drops and trash compared to easy to get Isle items. Shame really

trevkno2의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T14:37:50-05:00

I am filled with rage. I love WoW holidays, but there is no sense in joining in on the festivities if there is nothing new.

gamerbob07의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T15:21:12-05:00

I just don't understand why they didn't increase the cloaks to like ilvl 502 considering the Timeless Isle can give 496 cloaks.

Catriona의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T15:58:02-05:00

Only thing left about this holiday is to run around on your lowbies and get all the fires for XP.

elionor의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T16:07:54-05:00

so i am curious do you guys do you guys change these guides year to year? or do you just copy and paste the same exact thing each time

DaMoggen의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T16:21:29-05:00

Another holiday i can skip because i have everything i want from it.

perculia의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T16:48:28-05:00

so i am curious do you guys do you guys change these guides year to year? or do you just copy and paste the same exact thing each time

We update the guides if Blizzard adds anything and also if we decide the guide's organization can be improved. This guide was solid and didn't need many changes, but you can compare the 2012 and 2013 Winter Veil guides to see how we reorganized the guide even though the holiday didn't receive many changes.

Greywyrm의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T16:53:22-05:00

Warning! Incoming Wall of Text :P

Tom Tom Way Points for all. I recommend a new waypoint profile. Enjoy.

bullwinkle2311의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T17:11:58-05:00

cool for new players.......... booooooooooooooring as hell for those who that already completed the archvs like me, same event with no changes except for a ridiculous 480 cape basically good for nothing at least in my case and I bet is the same case of most of lvl90s, I mean what is better an iL480 event cape or try the timelss isle and get a 496 iL cape.... only thing that I will try is to get the Frostscythe of Lord Ahune ( again usless il480) for transmorf.....

rodalpho의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T17:17:42-05:00

Such a shame they stopped investing resources in holidays and events. As a long-time player, there's never anything new for me.

SteveZombie의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T17:27:36-05:00

*Sigh* the least Blizzard can do for in-between-xpac-content is to change up each holiday as they're about to hit.

The least they could do is absolutely nothing.

Alasdaer의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T19:52:42-05:00

My first first time doing this. Easy going with full speed flying. I didn't even use coords and found the fires on my own. It could easily be done on one day if I wouldn't have mixed in some LFR runs. So it's just Northrend and the tumbling and I'm done. Very easy achievements.

Edit: Strange thing for me on wowhead. I had to confirm my post with a code - which was in Russian. I can read Russian letters but I don't have a Russian keyboard since I'm not a Russian. So I typed the letters in English and it worked. Bug on the site?

Mellro의 댓글

on 2014-06-21T20:32:49-05:00

Meh.. I hate to say it, but the games old world is more than being neglected- it is being forgotten. I would like it more if the old world Azeroth was just blown up by the Legion.

You kidding? it's never been forgotten. If they just up and abandoned old world WoW, they wouldn't have dedicated an entire expansion to revamping it's quests and dungeons, then continuing to revamp the old dungeons for the next 2 (and counting) expansions after that. They also wouldn't update Darkmoon Faire and the like.

It's not that they are forgetting old world content, it's that they are trying to get too many things done at once, and thus, are too slow to update stuff.

*Sigh* the least Blizzard can do for in-between-xpac-content is to change up each holiday as they're about to hit.

The least they could do is absolutely nothing.

That's exactly what they've been doing. Look how that's turning out, we have a big dry period right now because of it. Blizz said at Blizzcon that they wanted to put all hands on WoD to get it out faster, but seeing as it's still taking longer than any other expansion, the least they could do is hire (or divert some of the folks working on WoD) a small group - perhaps the same size as the team behind Hearthstone - to work on designing small content between expansions and updating the holiday events each year.

maely의 댓글

on 2014-06-22T02:09:42-05:00

I've played this game for two years, since the Midsummer Holiday two years ago (just got my Violet Proto finally, hah) but I'm not sure if I've ever seen any of the old holidays updated, let alone any new holidays added. Honest question: when was the last time Blizzard cared about this game?

Which is why I'm letting my subscription run out here in a week. If Blizzard doesn't care about this game any more, why should I? Time to move on.

DELHunsy의 댓글

on 2014-06-22T03:43:52-05:00

I completed this event back in 2009, thats FIVE years ago, and since then nothing has been updated really, GG blizz

jamesoliff의 댓글

on 2014-06-22T04:28:21-05:00

Is Brazier of Dancing Flames going in the toy box?

Jkpman의 댓글

on 2014-06-22T06:45:08-05:00

*Sigh* the least Blizzard can do for in-between-xpac-content is to change up each holiday as they're about to hit.

Go voice your displeasure on the official forums, it's the only way this will ever have a chance to change.

I totally agree, although it's a minor annoyance.

I completed this event back in 2009, thats FIVE years ago, and since then nothing has been updated really, GG blizz

Wrong.Different pet. (I think the first one was a flame elemental) and the item levels change every expansion,I also believe they need some stability with the holidays, Just because you completed it 5 years ago doesn't mean everyone else did.I'd still like to see more added with the core achievements remaining the same.